Easy. All you have to do is randomize a title from the two columns. Each has ten items, so, roll a d10, or throw open a random number generator. Pick one from each column, and [Column One] [Column Two] is your title. You can throw “The” in front of it if you’re so inclined — e.g. “The Horse-Drawn Lighthouse,” or without it, “Crimson Bride.”

[…] Chuck Wendig challenge once again. This was another roll of the dice. A two part rolls where you got one part of the title form two columns. I got Orichalcum Hive-Mind. Which, at first annoyed me, but then it seemed cool. […]

“The Orichalcum LIbrary” will go live in about 2 hours. I’m another who had to look it up… and I posted Wikipedia’s entry in the blog post, as I’m sure none of my followers will know either! There’s a little linky with one of our earlier genre mash-up challenges somewhere in there, too 🙂 1078 words. I hope.

So I spun the dial and settled with “Apocalypse” and “Shame”. Combining these two choices I wrote a story whose theme is the exorcism of inner demons. Thematically touching on that theme is the reason I think some of us spend countless hours of time constructing word and sentence. I call it, “Apocalypse – Shame: A Prose of Loss Lament”. As always I am very interested in your honest feedback.

Okay! First timer here. I rolled a 2/3 and got “Devil’s Angel”. Almost too good? Anyway here it is. I would love some feedback. This is my first short story. I really struggled to edit it down to what it is.